Lead Photographer, Advancement-Marketing

Lead Photographer, Advancement-Marketing

SUMMARY

Visual Brand Execution

• Captures compelling, high-quality photos for a wide range of needs, including marketing campaigns, events, social media, product launches, and editorial content.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to strengthen visual storytelling and elevate the university’s brand through photography.
• Serves as a brand ambassador, ensuring photography aligns with the company’s brand identity, visual standards, and tone.
• Collaborates with marketing, design, and public relations teams to maintain consistency in lighting, composition, and styling across all imagery.
• Edits, retouches, and prepares images to meet brand standards and ensure consistency across platforms.
• Develops and maintains photography style guides and visual reference documents for internal and external photographers.
• Approves final imagery to ensure brand cohesion before distribution or publication.
• Oversees image quality control, usage rights, and compliance with brand guidelines.
• Assists with image selection, metadata tagging, and archiving within the university’s digital asset management system.
• Stays current with photography trends, techniques, and best practices to contribute creative ideas.

Photo Production & Operational Oversight

• Coordinates and executes all aspects of photo production including scheduling, location scouting, and equipment preparation.
• Leads logistics for on-campus and off-campus photoshoots, including securing permissions and managing shoot timelines.
• Collaborates with departments across campus to align visual needs with marketing strategies.
• Provides creative direction to student photographers and freelance talent to ensure quality and consistency.
• Maintains photoshoot calendars, secures location permits, and coordinates booking details.
• Manages photo budgets, monitors project costs, and recommends equipment upgrades or resource investments.
• Maintains a well-organized, accessible photo archive and ensures the timely delivery of final imagery.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION:

EXPERIENCE:

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Customer Service Orientation – Keeps internal and/or external key stakeholder(s), students, parents, faculty, staff and community partners in mind at all times.
• Professionalism – Displays a high level of professionalism, e.g. timeliness, reliability, communication, and work ethic.
• Christ-first Faith – Provides spiritual support to community members, including students, on their Christian faith journey.
• Adaptable/Flexibility – Ability to change or adjust to change.
• Attention to Detail – Ability to efficiently and accurately focus on a specific task or number of tasks. Reviews details with a critical eye.
• Business & Financial/Budget Acumen – Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of financial concepts, accounting, marketing and organizational functions.
• Confidentiality – Maintains the necessary confidentiality and discretion required for the position.
• Creativity – Ability to think creatively and design creative solutions to problems.
• Effective Communication – Expresses ideas and information in a clear and concise manner both verbally and in writing to convey clear, well-articulated messaging across a wide variety of audiences.
• Establishes Trust – Gains the confidence of others by actions and words that promote being honest, forthcoming, and vulnerable.
• Problem-solving – Anticipates, evaluates, diagnoses, and resolves problems in a systematic and fact-based manner.
• Project and Time Management – Effective planning and priority setting. Ability to manage several complex projects simultaneously while working under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Results Orientation & Accountability – Takes accountability and identifies, executes and drives actions to consistently achieve desired results.
• Self-development – Grow one’s self-awareness, abilities, skills, and/or talent.
• Teamwork & Collaboration – Creates a climate that fosters commitment to a common vision and shared values that promote cooperation and working together through trust and support of others both departmentally and cross-functionally.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to work non-routine hours as needed.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time.
• Ability to traverse campus and stairs.
• Ability to lift/move objects up to 25 pounds.